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Frederick Barbarossa, perhaps one of the greatest emperors in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, famously ended the Third Crusade with his final breath. That is to say, he drowned in a river before reaching the Holy Land, causing most of his 15,000+ army to scatter and head back home and leaving the 10,000+ armies of the French, English and Hungarians (the former two having been fighting each other beforehand) with the job of defeating the Ayyubids (which they didn't).

How might the Third Crusade have concluded had Freddy got himself across that river?
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